Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Drumble Meadow, The Drumble Wood 1841–4 TA

Etymology

, Drumble Meadow , The Drumble Wood 1841–4TA . The R . Perry flows in a gorge here . Gazetteer lists this and six other instances of Drumble ( s ) in the county . There is a larger number in Cheshire . The discussion in PN Ch 5 . 1 162 treats it as a S . and E . Cheshire ModE dialect variant of the more widespread Dumble , and gives the meaning ' a wooded dell, a ravine ' . EDD says ' a dingle, aravine ' and ascribes the word to Cheshire , Staffordshire and Shropshire . Cf. Dumble Hole in Lyneal, infra .